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Show fiOCl)ENN,:DECLARES ;-v, . I'- .i .-. . ; That the people of Utah are very much exercised over the probable action of the United States Senate, when the Question arises jof seating Reed'Smoot, the Mormons, avowed candidate' for the Senate to succeed the Democratic Senator,' Joseph Hwlns,' Is '6howiv by an interview,; had last night at the Hotel Henry with'vV. S. Brown of pgden Utah.r .says the Itttsburg' Dispatch. - Mr. Brown was raised Jn Canton, and went west In lS63,'and has therefore 1iad a good opportunity .to view MornTOhism lnt its stronghold. He is in the mining business in Utali.' and knows Mri Smoot well.'-.! '" .:' : ;.v ; "- . ; , ' i , . r ' ' Mr, JJrOwn soldi " "Tou may be assured that if the Utah Legislature elects 1 Sir. Smoot the Mofmon' leader win'have "had. positive assurance from the Republicans Re-publicans In the Senate that he will be seated. ;They will not again risk defeat, as they did In the,Roberfs case. . 1. am' a Democrat, and our party la curious to see w-hat theory the Republicans will advance for seating Smoot. when Roberts, ! a Democrat, was turned down. Th practice of polygamy was renounced by the I Mormon' church before Congress' would consent to admit Utah as a State. There was no' sincerity lin thf assurance, for polygamy Is practiced today, though not so openly and notoriously. The Mormons were Democrats at first, but politics j is pliant to the dictates of the church, and they cast their lot' with the party in power, no matter how Inconsistent their course may .appear., " 1 . , . ; 1 ' 'The members of the next Legislature' In Utah were 'elected after they had fjrst been committed to him, and If It falls .to send him to the Senate the breach ; of fjilth Would be as great as If the -Presidential -electors failed to do what they are committed to do." : :-, N ' '.'" v.' ' Mr. ; Brown fwrthpt .ea4 that, the. Mormons hJol .the. balance of power ,iiot only In Utah,' but a Arizona, Nevada. Idaho and Wyoming, and that their political po-litical rr,rhln !s tnf rerfect stjf'f v,1- vte ?s T rpn- .,. ?j; o'tcvC lu iuulli:n v'.-'UjA uaj-4 bJWa a bteiL lits aviwed puiv.:- 1 of. the Mormons Mr,, Brown stated,- to- taye a'eat .In Congress, so as to. give a governmental status to the church, and tbey will never rest until either they succeed or are exterminated.', He says the mission wprk of the Mormon church is carried on in a colossal scale all over the world, and that they are singularly' successful In making converts everywhere. ' ' : ,. j1- ; "'I : , . -t . ; ' |